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Poster:
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Steve Nordby |
Date:
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September 15, 2002 01:53:13am |
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Forum:
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prelinger
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Subject:
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Re: New Website |
The new Web site looks nice but is a little disappointing. The full list page, which I loved to browse, is gone. And those bandwidth hog animated gif's should only be on the page for the individual film. The search utility is ok, but it needs tweaking - for example searches for "atomic power" and "atomic energy" produced different results, with "atomic energy" getting titles that should have been under "atomic test" but were not. Still, this is a great site!
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Poster:
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John A. |
Date:
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September 15, 2002 07:25:23am |
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Forum:
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prelinger
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Subject:
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Re: New Website |
I am in total agreement. Telephone is missing from
the search index. Many Bell System films are therefore not easy to find. Radio is missing from the search index, and many of these films are likewise not found. The animated gifs are annoying and cause the page to load slowly. Also, one cannot directly download; they must first look at the scenes page before they can download. This wastes much time.
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Poster:
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Midwestkel |
Date:
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September 16, 2002 02:42:05am |
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Forum:
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prelinger
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Subject:
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Re: New Website |
Guys .php extensions are better then the .html or .htm whatever it was before. PHP is server side and is much faster then HTML. The site looks nice and always with a new site there is change thats why you make a new site, change if it wasnt any different than whats the point. I like the site.
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Poster:
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John A. |
Date:
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September 16, 2002 01:59:38pm |
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Forum:
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prelinger
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Subject:
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Re: New Website |
The problem with .php is that after you download
it, you do not neccessarily know which type it really
was that you downloaded. It was not html but identified
exactly the type of file; mpeg2, avi(MPEG4), or presently
a new format, mpeg1 (DVD). I do not believe the speed
of downloading is attributal to the suffix, only the size
of the file. In my mind the old (exact) file spec.
was better. Also, the current download shows only
"download" while the old site gave a number to each
file. This was easier to sort and index.
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Poster:
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JasonW |
Date:
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December 03, 2002 12:29:22am |
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Forum:
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prelinger
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Subject:
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Re: New Website |
I was annoyed by the download.php file problem from the browser too, so now I always use an FTP program to get the files instead. I get to the movie detail page and fold my cursor over the Download Movie lik for the file I want (in my case MPEG2) and see the file number (e.g. 00895a.mpg). I then simply navigate with my FTP program to the directory for the movies (e.g.
ftp://ftp.archive.org/pub/movies/prelinger/mpeg2/) and download the file from there.
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